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Originally Posted by SPeRMiNaToR
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All in favor of making $40,000,000,000 for doing absolutely nothing please raise your hand.
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Gee i wonder how that vote will turn out...  |
well its not THAT simple
keep in mind they rejected .xxx in May 2006 (and earlier in 2000 or so as well) and the most important guys like the ICANN Chairman, President, perpahs also vice-president were all against it
well..correction - they didn't reject it, but they voted not to approve it
surely ICANN is partially also money motivated, but it's not that their main goal is to make money - its the case of ICM, not ICANN
ICANN also feels the controversy - if there was no controversy, then .xxx would be already approved, like it happened with .travel or .mobi (useless extensions IMO but at least no controversial so they were approved fast)
the point is also that both the religious groups like Focus on Family and Family Research Council were against .xxx and so was/is the adult industry in general, and the small changes made in the new proposed .xxx registry agreement compared to the one from last year, dont change the thing that still both the adult industry as well as the family gropus are AGAINST .xxx
the only thing I don't see happening anymore is the involvement of the Department of Commerce, they aren't vocal about it anymore, probably becaue they were critisised for their involvement in killing .xxx last year. In summary several other countries are/were also strongly opposed to .xxx (not only the US) but at the same time there were other countries who didn't give a fuck about .xxx and they wanted to critisize the US for their involvement in killing .xxx
yes, I'd agree with them, that the internet is not American - I understand their arguments, but in this situation the US Department of Commerce acted as our ally
so perhaps A1R3k is right - and the .xxx is closer to being accepted today than ever, but still I don't think that the ICM guys gave $1Million to the ICANN guys unde the table to buy every vote of every ICANN board director
so I feel we can still fight against .xxx